Smyrna times., 1887-02-16

lOIcei anu IhaC lrasclOle lady imme-
diately rose to a white heat of indigna-
tion, and poured out the vials of her
wrath upon the offenders head. He.
the offender, was meek young man of
the blonde type, with an enormous to.
boggan in tow, with which he was
trying to force his way through the
crowd in order to reach the slide.
Now was the time. 1 rapidly took
my position, and before you could say
" Jack Robinson Julia jumped on and
away we went. Hurrah for the new
style of elOping How the snow flew
and the wind whistled! Julia lost her
hat at the very start, and one of INV
moccasins followed it. Good heavens
shrieked Julia-you could hear nothing
less than a scream" there comes aunt
after US !" l glanced back and my
heart froze within me. Not fifty yards
behind us came Mrs. Jupp, riding her
toboggan in the fashion, and with all
the abandon of a schoolboy, her curls
flying wildly in the wind, her highly
magnifed eyes glaring at us over the
curve of the tObOggan, like the exag-
gerated orbs of some unknown mon
ster. Her bonnet was still attached to
her head by one string, and danced
in the air behind her like q Chinese
kite.
1t seems that her eagle glances fell
on just as we started, and realizing the
whole thing at once, what does that
woman do but knock down-yes,
actually knock down-with an um-
brella-the blonde young man, seize
his tObOggan, hurl herself after us be-
fore any one could stop her. Mrs.
Smith-SOnes tainted dead away, and
almost came down the slide on her own
account, but was caught by the unfor-
tunate young man just as she was
disappearing over the edge.
She is not steering at ALL" l
screamed to Julia, who would have
been crying if she had breath to spare.
She will upset to a dead certainty. ,"
And truly the old woman's tOboggan
was wObbling from side to side, in
what an expert would have known was
dangerous way. Suddenly l heard a
wild shrek, even above the roar of the
wind, and glancing back saw a con-
fused mass of drapery about twenty
feet up in the air, apparently still
rising, and closely followed by the
tOboggan. assumed at once that the
entire outfit belonged to Mrs. Jupp,
and my heart grew light again.
We reached the bottom safely, and
abandoning the tObOggan to its fate, 1
helped Julia into the sleigh, which
was waiting for us, sprang in myself,
and away we went at a speed most
surely forbiddenb by law. "Oh, George" f."
said Julia, who was frightened now,
and clung to me in charming manner,
suppose aunt is killed? And l am
sure she is. Did you see how high she
went? must go back again-indeed
/ must"
Nonsense, dearest; you couldn't
kill Mrs. Jupp if you tried. She has
probably stolen a sleigh and is after us
by this time"
"Oh, driver" called Julia, bracing
up at once, can't we go faster? We
seem almost to crawl along. And yet,'
she said tearfully, Il am sure she is
hurt; she-she-" ahd Julia began to
cry In earnest. But when we arrived
at a friends house, where everything
was ready, Julia stopped crying and
began to blush very much, indeed
and kept on blushing until she was
made Mrs. Edgerton, when she said
in quite a matter-of- fact way: "NOw
George, you must go and see aunt al
once" And so, leaving my wife il
good hands, went up to the JupT
mansion, and rang the bell with much
inward fear and quaking. John, the
foOtman, came to the door, grinning
and l, trying not to grin also, asked i
l could see his mistress. No; Mrs
Jupp had come home upside down,
John said, end was in bed with three
doctors attending her. She was in nc
wise injured, but insisted that she had
swallowed her front teeth, as these
useful articles were missing when she
picked herselfup and took an inventory
of her belongings. The doctors al
agreed that she was mistaken-as il
fact the teeth were found in the snow
some days afterward-but she called
them a pack of fools, and always in
sisted that they went down her throat
My wife and l, after much effort
opened negotiations with the old lady
which resulted in a sort of armed
neutrality being proclaimed; but We
never dare to say "tObOggan to her
and the sight of a uniform, or anything
pertaining to the sport, has the same
effect on her that a red flag has on 8
bull, and at such times she is not safe
but considering everything we get or
with her very well.
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